“Can we know what’s going…” began Harry but was cut off by a glare from Aria.
“That’s what I was about to tell you genius,” she snapped, before continuing in a softer tone,” Sorry, this is a bit of a situation that we’ve been put into today.”
“As the two of you probably noticed, they’ve finished building the new door to this facility,” she began,” and we’ve been assigned to keep that particular area clean during this time slot.”
“That’s good right?” asked Daisy.
“I was getting to the bad part,” she said, holding up a hand,” please just listen to me. No more questions until I’m done with explaining.”
Harry pretended to zip up his mouth and throw away the key. Both girls smiled at his attempt to lighten the mood.
“As I was saying we’ve been assigned to a door and that’s the good thing but according to what I’ve heard …” Her voice dropped to the barest of whispers that both Daisy and Harry had to lean in to hear. They have come up with some new security system…it’s supposed to be way better than the one we have now so…well I don’t need to explain why that’s bad do I?”
“Definitely bad news,” summarized Harry, somehow managing to keep a smile on his face unlike Daisy,” but there’s always a way.”
“How can…” began Aria, but it was Harry’s turn to hold up his hand.
“Let’s not talk about that right now, let’s just go and get to work…it's going to take some time to get used to the new place,” suggested Harry giving them the subtlest of nods to let them know that conversation was far from over.
Aria stepped through the brand new glass door first. It slid open with a smoothness that was quite rare among equipment they got to use. Daisy and Harry followed suit.
The first thing that hit them was the smell of fresh cut grass, something that was a rarity in the camp. Harry took a deep breath as a fresh breeze hit. It left him with a strange sense of happiness and sadness all mixed together as he took a look around the new place.
It appeared to be fairly similar to the other gates that they had worked in. Two thick concrete walls boxed them in along the sides, the glass wall of the passage they had come through covering the rear. In front of them stood the one thing that all humans wished would collapse: The Inner Wall. It covered the entire camp and was the biggest physical barrier blocking them off from the outside world. It wasn't like it was the most dangerous but it stood as a symbol to the their imprisonment.
The aliens’ own residences surrounded this wall followed by another wall that formed the perimeter of the camp. There were also supposed to many more surprises in between the two walls, but there were mostly rumors, owing to the fact that no one that ventured outside had lived to tell the tale.
What they did all know for a fact was that the inner wall towered over them stretching to a good thirty feet tall. It was made of a metal that the aliens had brought over and they'd taken to calling it Comotelal. The actual thickness of the wall remained a mystery to them but they knew that the top of the wall was made of very smooth metal and curved into a hemisphere which was designed to prevent any kind of hooking system from gaining traction on it unless it could pierce the metal which had so far proven impossible with the tools they had.
And set into the wall, at the exact center from the two walls that enclosed them was the new door. It was the first time in a long time that something like this had been done and it was going to be the talk of the camp for a good while. Every time a door was introduced to the camp, it had been followed by several escape attempts, it was very much inevitable. Despite the fact that no one had ever succeeded and the doors only ever got better, they hadn't stopped trying and this would be no different. Perhaps life at camp would be a bit more interesting in the coming months, they'd at least have a bit of hope, a rare commodity with the current state of humanity.
“So our new job is pretty much the same as the previous door," Aria was saying somewhere in the background, and he moved closer to her to listen in. "We have to keep this place clean and fill in any cracks and such that occur from the elements. One new thing though is that the door is off limits. We are allowed to clean the wall itself but making any form of contact with the door is strictly forbidden. Whether that’s because there’s a laser defense system on it like the wall or they just don’t want us touching it, I don’t know. But if you like your hands don’t touch it.”
Well, that was new. They'd never been told not to touch a door before.
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